BASIC Screen Utilities

Screen utilities are used to display formatted menus.

The screen utility consists of a series of BASIC subroutines to handle formatted menus. All data is passed between the subroutines and the main program through a common defined in include dm,bp,includes, screen.inc. The routines are described in more detail in the appropriate section.

screen.display Utility

Displays a screen and waits for a menu selection.

screen.erase Utility

Erases a screen section.

screen.init Utility

Initializes the common. This routine must be called before any other routine is called. After calling it, the main program can modify some of the common variables.

screen.input Utility

Displays an input screen and waits for user data to be input.